I’m worth 2.235 million and I’m riding a smelly Greyhound bus in the wee hours of the morning to get to my grandson’s baseball training camp. His university’s team comes down to Florida by bus every March for a week of spring training. Parents come, too and so did I, a grandmother, known to all

Back when I was an administrator in a public elementary school in Australia, I organised and accompanied sixth grade students, along with several teachers, including Carole MacDonald, to a 5 day outdoor camp. I lived in Sydney, which is a very sophisticated and cosmopolitan city, and was not really familiar with the bush. After the

If the meeting hadn’t finished early, I wouldn’t have come at all. By the time I entered the reception, the bride was drinking beer from a lomg-necked bottle and the groom had a rosy, bewildered look. Then I saw him. A gentlemen with a craggy face and a coiffed mane of gray hair was nodding

THE GOOD THINGS WE NEVER HEAR ABOUT Step back. Listen. Watch. Like me, you will see good people doing good things all around you. Yes, Louis, it is a wonderful world. And one part of that wonderful world is Challenge Air, a charity event sponsored by Rotary of Fort Lauderdale and many, many other volunteers.

my And I didn’t bother to bend over to pick up anything that fell to the floor for the last three days. Cheerios, threads, bits of plastic. Never mind, I thought to myself. The cleaning lady is coming Friday. By Friday evening, I knew this wasn’t true. I called her and got no answer. I

Antelope Canyon is like a pink sandstone maze without any straight walls.. Our family decided not to exchange Christmas gifts this year but do a trip together instead. We were all a little jittery about how this would work out. Would we snarp at each other? Growl and argue? But we decided on a tour

A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS 2024 And it was wonderful because it was without stress of gifts, baking, cooking, wrapping, and decorating. It was wonderful because I spent time with my grandnson. It wasn’t a lot of time, but it was powerful. He was at peace with himself. He was pure pleasure, open, and honest. I sensed

And a apparently the more decorations one puts up or out, makes the holiday happier. Before Thanksgiving, I saw outdoor lights, plastic Santa’s, twinkles, and lit candles. One home has two Christmas trees, one skinny so it doesn’t take up much room and another one which is quirky, with a manniquin emerging from a full

Why do I need snow? For a variety of reasons. 2. I want to wear jackets, turtle necks, scarves, and boots . 3. It’s almost Christmas. There has to be snow or at least the promise of snow on the way. 4. Snow adds an element of surprise to the day. Will the roads be